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...rapeutic strategies. Based on the observation that children who grow up in a rural setting and are subjected to harmless bacteria and dust are less susceptible to allergies and asthma, the group aims to study how susceptibility to allergies arises and what role is played by the key mechanisms of congenital im...

...entrations in poorly ventilated homes. Infants and children are particularly vulnerable to CO exposure because they spend a great deal of time in the home. No policies exist to regulate CO in the home. Many commercial home monitors sound an alarm only 20 minutes after CO concentrations reaches 70 parts per ...

...isconsin, Madison, asked dyslexic and non-dyslexic children to identify patterns presentedwith and without visual noise. "The dyslexic children performed the same as thenon-dyslexic children when there was no noise,"Sperling and colleagues wrot...

...Society of Hematology. The researchers studied 246 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), all of wh...rapy. Patients with poorer prognostic factors 130 children were assigned to a high-risk group; the remaining children were enrolled in the lower-risk arm. In...

...t year states. Across the United States, 9 million children under 18 have asthma and 4 million of them had an attack last year, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. A nebulizer is a machine that reduces liquid albuterol, the medicine commonly used to treat breathing troubles, t...

... combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID) in which three children later developed leukemia, the researchers point out that this is the only similarity between the two trials. The studies were concerned with different genes and with different targets, and in the arthritis trial, the transduced cells were removed aft...

...s that suggests that Thomas Jefferson fathered the children of Sally Hemings. Students will be charged with analyzing the evidence and coming to their own conclusion in the case, making it an effective case study for examining some of the social aspects of the nature of science. The third module deals with th...

...rhesus macaques similar to those observed in human children and adolescents. In humans early exposure to psychosocial stress may accelerate female reproductive development and result in early puberty and early interest infants. This study shows that early exposure to harsh and inconsistent maternal care is as...

...higher than thoseobserved in other studies of U.S. children and adults. Moreover, there was a direct relationship between urinary MEHP levels and the intensiveness of medical product use.Urinary MEHP levels among infants with high DEHP-containing product use were five times as great as levels among infants w...

... is the most common cause of hospitalization among children under five. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) sends about 120,000 children to the hospital in the United States each year. Although it is only life-threatening in one case out...

...s and how we can use them to optimize nutrition in children with a history of low birth weight." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the incidence of low birth weight babies weighing less than 2500 grams (5 1/2 pounds) in the U.S. increased 12 percent between 1980 and 2000, whi...

...or more and multiple shots to fully immunize their children against diseases like diphtheria and pertussis. The reason is twofold. First, a single vaccination generates only a small amount of immunity and booster shots are needed to build up immunity to protective levels. The second reason is due to the fact ...

...esity, which is increasingly recognized as robbing children of physical vigor now and good health in later lif...ricians' lack of confidence in managing obesity in children was most related to a scarcity of useful educational materials and other potentially modifiable fact...

...nter focused on rehabilitation and restoration for children with paralysis. The Center's director, Dr. John M...ced remarkable results in Reeve will be applied to children at the new Center. Dr. McDonald's advanced restoration therapies (RT) have revolutionized the ther...

... and public health impacts of mercury pollution on children and other vulnerable populations, articulated by health professionals who practice medicine or support population health and patient care. Widely accepted scientific research shows that mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can harm developing fetus...

...o honors Gordon's community work on bone health in children in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department o...entified it as an important area for prevention in children and adolescents." Mandl, an attending physician in Children's Department of Emergency Medicine, rese...

...1 billion each year treating 15 million of British children and adults for allergies like eczema, hay fever and asthma and an estimated 40% of children and 30% of adults in the UK are now affected by allergic disorders, a University of Edinburgh Profes...

...d the key to explaining why women who delay having children until later life have lower fertility compared to ...ctive history should influence her ability to have children in the future. Now, biologists at The University of Manchester have been given some clues after stud...

...ed in human diaphragmatic defects? After studying children with similar problems, the authors did indeed identify a child with a serious Fog2 gene mutation who died on the first day of life with severe breathing difficulties, small lungs, and an abnormal diaphragm. "This is the first identified cause of [...

...drylands in developing countries averages about 54 children per 1,000 live births, 10 times that of industrial countries. Importantly, the rate in such drylands is twice as high as that of other, non-dryland regions in developing countries. The authors rank desertification land degradation in drylands as ...